Nigerians react as Bauchi Gov releases N32m to vaccinate 800,000 cows

Following the disbursement of a whooping sum of N32m by the Bauchi State Government to vaccinate 800,000 herds of cattle in the state, Nigerians on social media have been sharing their opinions on the special priority given to cows in the country.

Earlier there reports that the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed had at the inauguration of 2020/2021 annual livestock vaccination campaign at the Galambi Cattle Ranch, Bauchi on Wednesday, February 24, said his administration has released N32m for vaccination of 800,000 herds of cattle.

“We have released over N32m for this exercise which will cover vaccines, equipment and allowances for our staff to do this exercise.

The Ministry for Local Government has been directed to pay the allowances of all the participating staff in the 20 local government areas, as well as to purchase more materials to vaccinate more than 800,000 herds of cattle.” the governor said.

Meanwhile, Nigerians have taken to social media to react to the news.

Here are some of the reactions compiled by IDOMA VOICE:

Viktoh SER tweeted; “When human beings are dying of sickness.”

Teeblaze_10 tweeted; “Shebi Animal lives matterz??? Laslas we go de alright”.

Temicare tweeted; “Is it not Bala Mohammed? I’m not surprised.”

Chuks tweeted; “This is not the country I was born into. What is this? A whole N32 million for cow that they’ll still kill?”

ProsperMicheal tweeted; “May God have mercy on this Northerners, release Money for cow vaccine and human being are dying everyday…wtf”

Ifeanyi tweeted; “And this fellow has not been able to pay complete salary since he assumed office.”